The Forrest City times., 1887-11-12

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 FORREST CITY. ARK.
 GEN. ConTE DE BEAUMONT tells th' New Yorkers tha; he considers thei Brooklyn bridge the greatest in th' world.
 CoAL is found in twcnty-two countie ;u Tennessee The output of coal sinr' 1881 has grown from 4s4. 900 tons |. 1.7oo 050 tons.
 A BIG picture of Gen. Gordon on hil aeathbed, a-ed as an advertisement fo' patent medicine, appears in . Lon iou wcman's journal
 A YOUNG man and his girl recently rode in . buggy from Plum Hollou. Canada. to the Linhurst exhibition, [ distAace of 105 m les
 DURrSG the past ten years $4,0O0,- poo has been spent in furthering the cause Of Christianity by the native Christians of Madagascar
 AN official list juss published shows there are thlrty-fve widows of Revo- lutioaary soldiers still drawing pen sioss from the government
 A FARMER at Bainbridgc. Ga. struck m apparently incxhsustible bed of ksolin at & depth of thirty feet while digging . well on his farm few dsys ago
 ALTHOUGH 90 years old, Jacob Hof- ner is one of the most active men in Ohio He was an intimate friend oi President Harrison. and is called the ..Ingersoll of Ohio"
 MANI western farmers report that wheat pays them more when fed to hogs than when sold at present pricea Some claim that they have made 8 dol lars worth of pork from . bushel of wheat
 THE story that Munkacsy is in wan, of money is emphatically denied by his wife. He never spends more than his income. and his wife says she has al. ways particularly admired his ability to live within his means.
 THE next statue to be placed in statu. ary hall. at the capitol, will be whits Italian marble of Lewis Cass. contrib uted by the stasc of Michigan It will be constructed from model by D. c. French and cost el0.000.
 "A FRoBLEM for the naturalist Is the cass of animal phosphorescence. Though it has helped the traveller to tell the time of night by his watch and even enabled him to read. its light does not reveal it's own cause.
 SIR CHARLES and Lady Dilke are tc pass . fortnight at Constantinople studying the involved questions which have ther center of interest in thai city. The suits of these observations will be published in The ForhagAtl, EsrisW.
 TIE monumental statue of Deak re. gently unveiled with splendid pomp al Pcsth does not give satisfaction to the public. The illustrious statesman wa, not handsome. but he was probably mol nearly as ugly as this efiigy represent, him to have been.
 Mas. JOSEPH KEPPLER wife of the proprietor of Paek. has . wonderful q amoad pendant. set in large stone. of the purest water. which is wound uI like watch. and each stone revolvel for eight hours making a brillian circle of Fiery light
 JOHN PEDDICoRD, one of the old Bal limore defenders. died at the Agef Mems home in that ty last Thursday He was 91 years old. There are bu two surviving members of the famou association. J. C. Morford. aged 92 and Nathaniel Watts. aged s3.
 RocKDALE county. Georgia, has rather str ngcnt and peculiar liquo law But one person in the county i permitted to sell liquor; he is appointed by tine grand jury; can sell for medic insl purposes only. and cannot keep ol hand more than ten gallons of spirits.
 NINETEEN years ago a woman stol e20 from the pocketbook of Mrs Ami Tomlin. of Mauricetown. N. J.. win l she was lying ill on schooner at Bos ton. The other day the thief sent $20 bill to Mrs Tomlin with q not telling when and how the money wa taken
 A MAN in Lawrence county. Ohio lately found two-headed snake abou seven nches long Both heads wer perfectly formed. but one only per formed all of natures functions l was of the rattlesnake variety. thoug 60 young that the rattles had not ye appeared.
 THE cotton crop of Texas for thi year will prove larger than was antici pated just after the army worm had go through it's march of destruction. Con tinued dry weather has made the cot ton open finely and picking has pro gressed much moro rapidly than uslally the case
 ABOUT six hundred farmers in Unio